Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chechnya - and because he stuck his jaw out in the face of Western criticism. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott on Thursday chided Moscow for failing to observe international human rights standards, and there was certainly no lack of evidence to back his claim: Russian forces continued their relentless pounding of Grozny despite the presence of thousands of civilians in the city, and the Russian military opened a criminal investigation into an alleged massacre of 41 civilians last week at a village near Grozny after initially denying...
...principal Frank DeAngelis has not seen the videotapes, but the evidence that the boys were motivated by many things has prompted some at the school to quietly claim vindication. The charge was that Columbine's social climate was somehow so rancid, the abuse by the school's athletes so relentless, that it drove these boys to murder. The police investigation provides the school with its best defense. "There is nowhere in any of the sheriff's or school's investigation of what happened that shows this was caused by jock culture," says county school spokesman Rick Kaufman. "Both Harris...
Luzhkov, however, has been dogged by a relentless Kremlin smear campaign. Last summer, for instance, rumors circulated that the government was planning to release damning kompromat (compromising materials) about him. One version current in the Duma was that this would take the form of a tape, either video or audio, of Luzhkov ordering the murder of a business rival. No tape ever surfaced, but the prospect of a brutal war of charge and countercharge reinforced the urgings of some of the mayor's advisers: forget about the presidency, back someone else and position yourself to be the great reformist Prime...
While rivals like CVS and Walgreens are enjoying record profits, the nation's second largest drugstore chain is saddled with billions of dollars in debt and caught in the crosshairs of an SEC investigation into its questionable accounting practices. For months the bad news has been relentless: In mid-October the board forced out CEO Martin Grass and announced that pretax profits for the past three years would be revised downward by $500 million. Then just before Thanksgiving, the chain's longtime auditor, KPMG, bolted after refusing to re-examine its client's books. Says Edward Comeau, an analyst...
...question gnawing at everyone is whether a company that already controls 51% of the world's soft-drink market can sustain Ivester's relentless strategy of pumping up sales 7% to 8% a year. "Coke has been this perpetual growth machine," says Ari Ginsberg, a management professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, "and now all this has happened...